It's always fun to walk around at night. Hong Kong lights up, and suddenly receives a second boost of traffic, noise and life. I don't think it happens in every single corner of the city, but at least in the areas I regularly walk it's more or less that way (Wan Chai and Causeway Bay).
The place is full of street food posts. Live fishes cooked in the minute, salads, dehidrated meat, duck, chicken, pork and several others find their way into people's stomachs. As soon as I'm more capable of communicating in Cantonese I'll dive into this whole new culinary world. (Today I learned how to ask for chopsticks, and in the restaurant the lady actually brought them! I felt victorious.)
Trolleys are a nice and cheap way to move around. Whilst they may be slow, the flat rate is around 25 US cents.
Urban art. I wonder if graffitists get hired or asked by the town hall in these cases.
I give up; I couldn't manage to find the name of this particular flower. I even googled "red flower" for pages and pages of images, but I still failed. Oh well, the name should come back to me eventually.
I shall conquer you some day, gotham-ish building. The International Finance Centre building is 415 metres tall; 28 less than the Empire State and 115 more than the Costanera Center, the soon-to-be tallest building in Chile.
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